Re: Disabling atime

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 13:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> umbers are good enough.
> >
> > At a very questionable price.
> >
> > Disabling SELinux provides the same amount of speed up.
>
> They aren't comparable. atime isn't a security feature and it is hardly
> used by any software at all.
* atime is a feature necessary to provide certain features to
applications, such as time-based clean ups.
* lack of atime in a filesystem cause functional regressions.
SELinux is completely optional and doesn't cause functional regression.
> > Nope, resistance against a tyrannic dictator.
>
> Stop your name calling Ralf. I haven't dictated anything here.
You are. You've asked for opinions and so far have been completely
ignoring any counterarguments and demonstrated your lack of
understanding them.
> It is
> very shameful that you derail all the conversations with these kind of
> personal attacks unrelated to the subject either on list or offlist very
> frequently.
Well, actually I think Fedora is derailing due to its leadership
committing one mistake after the other.